Summertime… 28 May 2009
Posted by marisacat in DC Politics, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Israel/AIPAC, WAR!.trackback
Gaza Strip, 26 May 2009: People gather by the sea to take advantage of a rare commodity in the territory: space. ‘It’s the one place where you can breathe good air,’ says one resident [Photograph: /Antonio Olmos]
under threat of fire..
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Or, just under fire… Not sure why this photo appealed to me, appearing in the NYT tonight, with the story of a cop killing in Harlem.
Police officers near the scene where a fellow officer was shot at East 125th Street in Harlem on Thursday night. Patrick Andrade for The New York Times
At least by the time the quick report was in the Times, it seems not much was known.
The pic of Bloomberg and Kelly is grim. Sorry for the dead, sorry for the living… but these days, I just think, what comes now.
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Marisacat 
ABC news is giving a lot of coverage to the suit that Olson and Boies are bringing to challenge prop 8 and the ruling of the state SC here, as unconstitutional and in violation of Equal Protection.
And right on cue, one of if not the biggest Dem leaning gay org in the state, which mismanaged the No on Prp 8 campaign BADLY, is going on the record as being against the suit from O and B. That “it is the wrong time to go to the SCOTUS”.
Tapper does have a post up on the Olson Boies move.
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
Continuing Unemployment Claims Rise to Record High 6.8 Million [8:45 a.m. ET]
Most ridiculous excuse seen at dkos so far for not releasing the rest of the torture photos from Abu Ghraib: anyone in possession of child rape photos can be charged as a sex offender.
Even the wingnuts haven’t come up with that kind of bullshit.
and I’m sure they would have been posting the exact opposite last year.
the rationalization in those threads is astounding.
Isn’t it? The denial is absolutely incredible. Were they throwing out their bullshit excuses when Obama had initially agreed to release the photos? Of course not.
Last time Palestinians started playing on the beach they were gunned down by a gun ship missile.
And I see the IDF is now killing Hebron Hamas members. No doubt to detail peace yet again.
The smell of absolute desperation:
Mindtrain is frantic.
Ohmyfuckinggoddes! Really? THIS is where they want to put their stake in the ground?? Parsing “children” vs. “minors” vis a vis RAPE??!
Unbelievable!
As I understand it, many of these children, er, minors, were there simply as instruments in the torture of their parents…”Hear that screaming? That’s your kid. No telling what exactly they’re doing to him/her, now tell me what I want to know…”
As a parent, I can tell you, it wouldn’t matter if my kid were 8, 18, or fucking 40 years old….
I am thoroughly disgusted.
I’m sorry, other than “meeting” you guys, that I ever spent time posting in that fucking cesspool.
Wait, that’s not right … cesspools fulfill a necessary function in human society.
Poooor Sully. With his slobber for Ob and his apologetics [is that a word?] to the point of contortion it hardly matters he is not a Democrat…
Sully’s really big thing was that Obama would fight “Islamofascism”. He did a whole post on his and Smerconish’s endorsement of Ob for that very reason.
So …. ya gets what ya votes for.
oh, he’s a Republican because of the jokes about missing WMDs?
Fucking moron.
LOL Thatcherite. I guess cuz the Falklands war was so honorable. And so on
I’m so sick of Obama’s “I’m so reasonable” patter. Stuff like…
It’s OK for you to not like my decisions.
It’s fair for us to disagree.
I have made mistakes, and will continue to make them.
WTF? This is nothingspeak. This is someone dodging actual debates and trying to look “above the fray” while doing it. These are content-free utterances designed to deflect. After a while you start to wonder if there is really any “there” there you could even psychoanalyze. This guy seems more and more to me like a hollow, man-shaped mirror.
He vomits pabulum.
Greetings, opera fans. Just stopping by to say thanks for the links and commentary.
Not piping up much these days, myself, because in addition to everything else, my life is being swallowed by an upcoming baby shower, of all things. I’m one of 3 familial co-hosts. And then there’s the mama-to-be. Tastes (as well as means) diverge, let us say.
Help me Jesus. Help me Lord!
All I can do si recommend champagne (or route to inebriation of choice, LOL) at the shower… 😉
Champagne, o yes indeed.
It’s proving a pretty surreal undertaking in these troubled times.
I find showers a bit much to be honest. Here and there a baby shower I enjoyed… and I DO enjoy buying the gift!… but over all…………………………………………….. 😯
Wasn’t able to burn my draft card, under the circumstances.
Working on ways to make it/keep it relatively low-key, human, and fun.
Wasn’t able to burn my draft card, under the circumstances.
LOL Good one!… I so understand… 😉 Hopefully it is a lovely day, no rain.. and a pleasant party…
Thanks. 🙂
Netherlands runs out of criminals, has to shut prisons
Gee, wonder if ending marijuana prohibition had anything to do with this?
Update on our local terrorism scandal: District facing more allegations in Raucci case: Five seek permission to file lawsuits.
Sotomayor’s Problem isn’t being Too Latina; It’s Having Hung with White Suits Too Long
Such a pro-corporate position would put her in league with the Roberts/Alito/Scalia/Thomas wing of the court,
… and with Ob.
yup
Who Are the Shadow Warriors? Countries Are Getting Hit by Major Military Attacks, and No One Is Taking Credit
From what I have read Israel is our partner in the issues with the Sudan/Darfur. One reason US fundie Xtians (including Carter) take an interest.
The rest, Syria…. our endless wars.
This is interesting.
that makes perfect sense.
which would make all of the noise so far misdirection.
I am thinking it is also payback. IIRC at the end Bill C released or commuted or I forget which form of clemency he extended to members of a PR ”radical terror” group. Separatists or …. (sorry to be muddled)
oh you have to laugh.
Peter Baker of the NYT is on with Charlie. He does nto stand out to me… there is a whole crew of those 35 year old political writers for MSM, dark haired, glasses, Musta been a LITTER… 😆
anyway! he says Obama sees his elevation as the coming together of the Thatcher Reaganites and the Blair Clintonites.
COUNT ME OUT.
😯
Let me guess..
the little rectangular glasses that, if they get much narrower ,
will be just slits in a plasticene frame , no glass at all.
Or simply a wire accent hemi-navigating the eyeline from ear to ear…
…motherfuckers just
squinting all the time when emphatically holding forth..
LOL. Baker went with
the modified Recto-see-all
yup… little glasses… that’s the one.
While I was at the NYT I see on the FP that Sotomayor is referred to as
SHARP TONGUED.
What ever do they call Scalia? What did they call him when they so erroneously voted him to the SC.
Prolly BRILLIANT. And maybe a sub text of “less collegial than some”.
Well, if they start revving with “sharp-tongued,” they can ramp up to “forked” in no time, I’m sure.
NYT now says Harlem officer shooting was “friendly fire.”
No wonder Bloomberg and Kelly looked grim.
whether the officers had identified themselves
Oh thank you for that… I did not go searching…
In the first article, that I linked to above, one “witness” who heard the shots, heard 5 or so at once. So that likely was the “friendly fire” going wildly off base.
And of course since they knew immediately on the scene, so did Bloomberg and Kelly. By the time of the presser in the middle of the night.
plainsclothes police are fucked up to begin with. how the fuck are people to know if the guys shouting at you and waving guns are actually cops?
… and everyone in the deal and the kill was plainclothes.
that is likely why Sean Bell died. How DO you tell?
Uh huh. 🙄
LOL. Yeh. And Guess Who the ‘Chicken’ Is..????
“Tough” ” New” ” Bargaining Position”. LMAO.
No DEFUNDING Mentioned.
For That Matter, No Sanctions mentioned at all.
All Talk. Same Destabilization Game.
Different Dickhead in the White House:
I think he tossed Abbas a bone for domestic (Palestinian) consumption. And MSM is happily relaying native US english speakers from settlements shaking their firsts at Hillary or Ob… depending on the moment.
Carry on.
Obviously we have not drunk ourselves to peace yet … all those glasses of Ob’s DNA… the oceans are still rising, the poor, ever more of them, are still with us. Think he promised us two suns and two moons as well…
Pfaff on what will and will not be said, much less done, in Cairo. That would be Obster in Cairo.
Of course it is just his opinion.
Guzzle that peace making DNA.
“Cyber” stuff will be under the Pentagon. A new command will be devised. “Cyber Czar” (and how disgusting is that, anyway?) will be but a part of it.
The article is a scream to read. It could nto be stiffer.
Markets
Dow
+96.53 at 8500.33
Nasdaq
+22.54 at 1774.33
I’m callin’ it. Dow 14,000 by end of June. No, really! Or maybe 14,000,000. Who knows! Sky’s the limit!
How Jim Cramer of you!
U.S. man who gave secrets to Israel spared jail
the ring in our nose is stamped “Made in Israel”.
Which is not to say we are not fully on board.
Well, yes. No big “mystery” there.
Booboo needs a new laptop. Maybe Booboo should get a job.
Awww…. Maybe he should get into those work from home pyramid schemes, oh, wait, he already does that.
Oh he has a job.
And no doubt making money hand over fist. LOL:
Jeezis.
Kind of a gong show on Dr Phil today: Gavin Newsom and Gloria Allred (and someone else) against fraidy wingnuts preaching against SS marriage.
ugh Gavin was a big factor in the Yes vote on Prop 8. Talk about a bad news boy.
Kristof: Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal
This last bit is bulllshit but the rest is interesting:
Mmm hmmm…they sure are reciprocating, aren’t they?
he’s a fucking moron.
Scott Horton on The Photographs. Not sure he adds anything new, but the Daily Beast has 13 “rarely seen” photos. Think I had seen all but two.
Actually on Page 2 Horton DOES add new material. And, may I say GOOD LUCK to the Obama administration. Lie down with dogs and fleas, etc…. which they have done. Being dogs and fleas themselves.
That ol’ change music. Cue it.
Phil Spector is awarded
15 to Life behind the trademarked Wall of Maximum Security.
Minimum 19 years before Parole eligibility.
hmm mmm 4 years for using a gun. Wall of Sound is gonna die in prison.
Good for Phil.
I wonder how many calls were quashed on this guy
along the way…
to such Grief:
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but Oh- what extraordinary slobber accompanying it,
this rote ritual now, the
Confirmation in Mythical American Justice.
A little longer there, Junior.
Like first reports of assaults back to the 60’s & 70’s.
But slobber on.
Wrap it up, already.
Speechless really. How shallow, these Court cretins.
And predictable.
I just noticed that a “Pentagon spokesman”, identified by the NYT as “Brian Whitman” is the mouthpiece on Cyber War.
GOOD GOING OB AND OBLINGS!
BushOb.
Ordinary Man Pretzel goes out for burgers. Last shot in the gallery (all on one page) is a HOOT.
did he pass on the dijon this time?
he saved MSNBC having to erase the word from their first airing of his and Biden’s “going amongst the people”. And I am sure they all take a hot shower and scrub down when back at the WH
“Just mustard” this time. Just the facts ma’am.
.
Literally – his doggy bag?
If the WH Press Corp reports on a little doggy cemetary-sized fresh mound in the South Lawn with a gravediggers shovel sticking out of it, it may be an indication that $700 Dollars worth of photo op hamburgers was a little much for the Presidential Pooper…
The dog, the man, ..BOTH
All day long the WH is backing off her comment about … oh one of her comments. Prolly “wise Latina”…
Why don’t they release the full context (which I have read, I see nothing wrong with what she said) and THUMB THEIR NOSES AT THE WINGER NOISE MACHINE.
And god knows I don’t like Ob his lousy scam job Oblings or his picks. Any of them, by now.
no convictions to have courage in … that is their whole problem.
And fro The incredible shrinking Gibbs
However, U.S. Murder, Sexual Torture , Rape, including children in front of their parents as “enhanced interrogation” is another matter entirely: OURS is called “National Security”.
So yeh, it’s prolly US. So place your bets.
Who ran the operation??. The DOD or CIA?
We Sub it out? Or did Ob give Bebe the old nudge, nudge/ wink, wink during the recent visit??
I’m out.
http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1772-convergence-and-continuity-the-american-backed-terror-campaign-in-iran.html#comments
http://www.badpaintingsofbarackobama.com
I think my long time favorite is the one where he is walking thru a field of………. wheat, sort of… but more likely DREAMS, with roses floating all about him and his very brilliant white shirt open almost to the south pole.
Think it is an older offering than what is at that site.. those I had never seen, think I got thru a dozn or so of them. Then I overdosed.
The one with the white horse in the background? Like…OMG! lol
G. Gordon Liddy On Sotomayor: ‘Let’s Hope That The Key Conferences Aren’t When She’s Menstruating’
well, he cut to the chase. I give him that. No beating around the bush or the issue. So to speak.
Oh pass the Charmin. The toity tissue.
So soft and fluffy for baby bums.
The one, the only….
Meatier Haze:
What Matters Isn’t the Photos, It’s the Torture. (Taguba Speaks)
by Meteor Blades
Meathead, It’s been a while. Still Travelling?
Setting up oxymoronic Blog Scholarships or some such?
Anyways, If you’re pokin in to see if your name got mentioned-
Could you be ANY MORE DIVERSIONARY?
You Vichy weasel, you.
Lotion Much? On tender Obama and the Demorat’s ass? ->or You?
Asshole.
😳 link failed…………… if you are around…
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/29/736779/-What-Matters-Isnt-the-Photos,-Its-the-Torture.-(Taguba-Speaks)
Another Fanboy on MAMZies Rec List .
25 comments and auto-fwoofed to the top,
probably by Meatiers Paid, the shilling Yoda who holds down the fort there at night in The Blog-Kingdom of Moronia.
Maybe they’re offering a choice between the complete box-sets
of “My Three Sons” or “The Flying Nun” to read that shit…
Boy did they do good!
oh that is disgusting. wiping their chins.. patting their butts.
Well, gosh darnit there BHHM!
I was trying to get some photos of Gizmo tonight… He doesn’t go for the focusing thing… never has – I got him so annoyed that he hissed at me. He usually only hisses at large objects being brought into the home [bikes, musical equipment, etc…]
But he specifically hissed at me tonight. I got some good shots, but I guess, in general, photos are out of the question. He’s still trying to figure out what all that was about, and is not happy about it.
God only knows how he’ll deal with me being gone for 15 days next month.
Very sentimental with a deep soul… just like me…
And of course Lucy is the simulacrum.
ahh…
sorry… drunk…
… no matter………………………………
How bizarre. they think they may have found the actual remains of Rosa Luxembourg.
U.S. opposes Uighurs’ plea
Is that the acidic, vomitous taste of change at the back of my throat?
He used them as props during his national security speech:
He’s so full of shit.
apologies catnip… out of Moderation now.
😳
If he keeps using them he needs to adopt them. They can be his “typically Uighur” family members. Held up every time related issues arise.
rofl 😀
(until he throws them under the bus too…)
Buses at the ready! Space available underneath! Be someone Obama used and tossed!
She is a piece of work. Ob and Oblings know, the Europeans have been very clear, until we take in some, they are done. they took nationals back that they had personally vetted. And in several (maybe all I forget now) cases simply released. They had done nothing.
I read that Boumedienne had some pizza in a little dive in Paris a few days ago… free to meet with whom he pleases (thol I imagine for a period of time these men are “observed”) and free to talk.. Very different from ‘held on a different part of the island”.
it all comes down to not wanting to piss off the chinese bankers, and to not have wingers say more bad things about him (and have winger democrats run against him too).
Professor of Constitutional Law my ass.
very true… someone can only run agasint Oblation, now, FROM THE LEFT. And we all know that won’t be happening.
Or a rabid ”populist”, but really corporatist, right… a lot more chance of that.
Sex with Ducks.
How cute. lol
I had no idea Pat Robertson said such a thing. Not surprised at all. Just hadn’t heard it. (There’s enough wingnut racket in my head already.)
Is it just me, or does anyone else see all of this cyber-booga-booga
as a cover to control the internets and their embarrassing/”dangerous” ability to both spread alternate versions of ‘truth’ — movies (complete with sound and facial expressions, even!) — AND dredge up the past and put it on display??
I mean how long before AT&T and Time Warner are called upon to implement their “pay by megabyte” bullshit in the name of national security??
Booga- booga — those scary cyber terrorists are gonna pollute your water supply and crash the electric grid….booga booga
What’s that sound?? Oh, right, hackers around the world cracking their knuckles over their keyboards and saying: BRING IT!
Very sorry brinn. Moderation filter snagged you twice and catnip once… (I slept like today never started… )
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/may2009/cybe-m30.shtml
n his remarks, Obama pointed to the threat of cyber terrorism, noting that US “defense and military networks are under constant attack. Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups have spoken of their desire to unleash a cyber attack on our country.” He invoked the recent terror attacks on Mumbai, India, where “terrorists…relied not only on guns and grenades but also on GPS and phones using voice-over-the-Internet.” Obama also alluded to the possibility of cyberwarfare with a major foe, mentioning Russia by name. “Last year we had a glimpse of the future face of war,” Obama said. “As Russian tanks rolled into Georgia, cyber attacks crippled Georgian government websites.”
However, these sorts of threats would most likely not fall under the purview of the Cybersecurity Coordinator, at least based on Obama’s explanation of the position. The implication is that these “threats” would be handled by the military-intelligence Cyber Command.
and this:
In any case, the formation of the Cyber Command raises the threat of the military or the NSA launching operations within the US. Both are currently constitutionally-prohibited from carrying on either military or spy actions within American borders. One anonymous “senior intelligence official,” cited in the Times, called this “the domestic spying problem writ large.”
“These attacks start in other countries, but they know no borders,” he said. “So how do you fight them if you can’t act both inside and outside the United States?” The answer, implied by the very formation of the Cyber Command, is that the military and spy agencies should disregard the traditional separation of foreign war and espionage, on the one hand, and domestic policing and investigation, on the other.
Uhhuh. Yep. Booga Booga
And that’s new, somehow?
In case anybody missed Moyers last nite, he had clips from Torturing Democracy – so incredibly hard to watch (for those of us with an actual conscience).
In case anyone has a strong stomach lining left (at least TW has Krugman who seems, off and on, to have found some balls…FTN looks to be thw worst) :
Meet the Press: Sens. Leahy, Sessions; Google CEO Schmidt, Xerox CEO Mulcahy, Caterpillar CEO Owens. Roundtable with Katty Kay, Brian Williams, Richard Wolffe
This Week: Sens. Schumer, Cornyn. Roundtable with Greenburg, Gillespie, Ifill, Krugman, George Will
Face the Nation: Sens. Feinstein, Kyl. Roundtable with David Brooks, Woodward
Fox News Sunday: Romney, Sens. Specter, Graham
State of the Union: Sen. McConnell, Sens. Klobuchar, Hutchison
Apparently Gibbs wants us to read the Salon report following the Telegraph report on the torture photos and Taguba.
Maybe I skimmed the Telegraph report too fast but I did nto gather that Taguba was quoted as saying he specifically saw the 21 and 23, two groups of photos in the ACLU suit relating to black sites rather than AG, himself. But he saw hundreds in investigating AG.
44 here, thousands over there. More than that I am sure. It is, imo, the whole of the photos that the administration(s) would prefer not surface. Tho of course anyone wiht a brain has known that as the 44 come out, the rest will trickle out. And should.
new thread…
LINK
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